Kerem Özben

• Spearheaded the complete frontend rewrite of a core cybersecurity product using Vue, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and GraphQL.
• Analyzed user behavior metrics and session recordings to identify friction points, subsequently redesigning numerous screens to improve user experience and retention.
• Increased the product's page load speed by 200% (LCP: 10s → 3s) by leveraging performance profiling tools and migrating to a modernized tech stack.
• Established rigorous code review standards and QA processes, measurably decreasing production bugs and raising team-wide code quality.
• Architected the frontend foundation for the product's design system, ensuring visual consistency across all UI components.
• Mentored junior engineers by reviewing architecture decisions, enforcing scalability best practices, and directing production deployments.
• Boosted development velocity by systematically integrating AI-powered coding assistants over the last 2 years.

• Monitored uptime analytics and resolved critical issues to maintain high-traffic e-commerce platforms at peak performance.
• Constructed resilient frontend architecture for the company's internal CMS platform.
• Investigated and debugged long-standing, complex issues that had previously blocked the engineering team.
• Optimized critical shared React components (filtering, sorting, pagination) across multiple sites by analyzing render cycles, improving page load speed by 15-20%.
• Directed code reviews and evaluated architectural proposals to ensure junior developers met stringent production readiness standards.

• Transformed static HTML pages into dynamic, state-driven React interfaces for Ziraat Bank, one of Turkey's largest banks.
• Programmed a React-based interactive game for Akbank over a 3-month cycle and maintained a heavily utilized SharePoint-based internal site.
• Collaborated within a 9-person cross-functional team to deploy halkbank.com.tr using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).

• Delivered 7 robust web solutions using HTML, Bootstrap, jQuery, and supporting APIs.
• Formulated and executed the integration of MasterPass payment infrastructure into mcdonalds.com.tr, facilitating seamless online transactions.
• Constructed complex, multi-step form interfaces for Tofaş utilizing Vue.js.
• Conceptualized and built the agency's corporate site from scratch using React.
• Orchestrated the technical output of 2 mid-level frontend developers and 1 senior backend developer to meet aggressive agency deadlines.
• Determined all frontend architectural strategies and stack selections for projects launched during this tenure.

• Programmed the mobile and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) distributions of ntv.com.tr, a prominent Turkish news portal.
• Executed comprehensive performance optimizations by analyzing Lighthouse metrics across the entire domain.
• Reduced initial page load bundle size by 30% and improved page load speed by 15% through strategic code-splitting and asset minification.
• Identified and eliminated legacy UI bugs, stabilizing the user experience for millions of monthly visitors.

• Designed a lightweight UI library tailored for interactive mobile ads, accelerating the company's overall ad development cycle by 40%.
• Coded playable, highly engaging mobile ad units utilizing Opera's JavaScript framework.
• Deployed targeted mobile campaign microsites on Foursquare for top-tier brands, integrating Angular single-page applications with Node.js/MongoDB backends.
• Created an interactive Facebook game for Samsung that leveraged Microsoft's Face Recognition API to drive user engagement.

Pixelplus Interactive · Jetrend · Gri Creative · Voden

• Single-handedly shipped over 80 digital platforms across diverse sectors (advertising, e-commerce, automotive, health, banking) employing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Programmed secure and accessible internet banking interfaces for Kuveyt Türk and Fiba Banka.
• Built internal content management interfaces utilizing Angular for multiple digital agencies.
• Modernized a legacy Flash-based website by recreating all animations in HTML5/CSS3, successfully expanding access to mobile audiences.
• Produced award-winning work that secured 3 industry awards and 10 nominations based on engagement metrics and design excellence.
• Managed a team of 4 junior and 3 mid-level engineers at Pixelplus, dictating frontend architecture for more than 30 concurrent projects.
• Instituted modern frontend build pipelines (SASS, Gulp, Grunt, Bootstrap) to standardize development workflows across agencies.
• Automated repetitive asset generation tasks (e.g., image resizing, email templating) via custom scripts, instantly doubling the team's production output.
• Visualized complex datasets using Highcharts, AMCharts, and D3.js to power analytics dashboards for enterprise clients.